Art: Zadok Ben David creates carpets of hand-cut aluminium sculptures

Date
12 July 2013

Yemen-born, London-based artist Zadok Ben-David conjures up fairytale-like carpets of trees, flowers, insects and plants across gallery floors, in enchanting installations which have found their way to galleries the world over. Every piece is opposed of many – sometimes even thousands – of hand-cut aluminium sculptures, each of which is a work of art in its own right, referencing both the symbolism at the heart of his mother-country and 18th and 19th Century botanical illustration. What’s more, they’re bloody lovely.

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Zadok Ben-David: Blackfield

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Zadok Ben-David: Blackflowers

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Zadok Ben-David: Blackfield

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Zadok Ben-David: Blackfield

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Zadok Ben-David: Blackfield

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Zadok Ben-David: Blackfield

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Zadok Ben-David: From Autumn to Spring

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Zadok Ben-David: From Autumn to Spring

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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